in the box! Literally. In the Berlin Jewish Museum, there’s a box with a jew who is there to answer ‘everything you wanted to know about Judaism’ (that person must be really smart!)...
Jewlicious Works
I'd never been to a Jewlicious conference before — I graduated from that demographic during the Clinton administration. But I drove down this time to lead a discussion on Israel with Consul General...
Holocaust Remembrance Day 2013
Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel started out in its standard manner here in Jerusalem. As the sun set Sunday night, the city ground to a halt as pretty much all commerce shut down. The Adopt-A...
Coachella Shabbat Tent
Be a part of the Coachella Shabbat Tent! Coachella has great music, a corporate vibe, and sadly no place for a chill community of sharing that is Shabbat Tent. Yet, we are making another go at it...
Counting the OMAR
Huh? The Counting of the Omer is a verbal counting of each of the forty-nine days between Passover and Shavuot (that’s that High holiday in the Summer that you’ve probably never...
Jon Stewart Schools Egyptian President Morsi on his arrest of Satirist Bassem Youssef
TV Host Bassem Youssef, considered the Jon Stewart of Egypt, was arrested last weekend on charges of “insulting Islam” and “belittling” President Mohamed Morsi. Thus it...
Passover Xenophobia in Quebec
It started off innocently enough. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, the advocacy arm of the Jewish Federations of Canada, posted a holiday photo on their Facebook page. The World War II era...
7 Ways NOT To Get A Second Date
We’ve all been on that terrible first date: the guy too nervous to make eye contact with you; the girl who won’t stop talking about her ex; the ex-addict as of two weeks ago (Yikes-a-bee...
Happy Passover – End US Aid to Israel!
Yesterday, commuters on New York’s Metro North Railway got a special Passover gift – an ad campaign by the American Muslims for Palestine urging folks to “End Apartheid Now! Stop US...
Is The Catholic Church’s New Pope, Francis I, Good for the Jews?
Pope Francis I’s relationship with the Jewish community, a new exhibit explores the impact of the Civil War on American Jews, world-famous cupcakes fit for Passover, and more of this...